23 May, 2018

Why I love the sea

2019-02-11T20:47:25+00:00May 23rd, 2018|Random musings, Ruminations, Sabbatical|

This post was written in my journal, while sitting on a bench overlooking the Pacific, during a week-long workshop on Offering to the Divine at Esalen (I wrote about the overall experience here). This rumination on the sea is quite beautiful, and probably the only piece of writing I'll share publicly from that week.  I've

19 Apr, 2018

Busy doing not much

2019-02-11T20:43:10+00:00April 19th, 2018|Birth of a Startup, Ruminations|

I'm a few days into my London-based post-CEOship. I've been phenomenally lucky that these days have coincided with a totally unseasonal heatwave, and I'm currently sitting on my sun-drenched balcony in short shorts and a big hat, listening to the sound of a duck frolicking in the canal water below my balcony. And its mid-April.

29 Nov, 2010

Fire in the eyes

2018-09-28T17:55:36+01:00November 29th, 2010|Birth of a Startup, Ruminations|

This is my guide to hiring: look for the ‘fire in the eyes’. I look for someone who’s eyes twinkle when they talk about their hopes and ambitions, and when they talk about your company. Someone that has that sparkle of brightness, coupled with a personality that you warm to straight away.I have hired people

24 Nov, 2010

Coming to America!

2019-02-11T13:50:22+00:00November 24th, 2010|Birth of a Startup, Ruminations|

My team and I recently made one of the hardest decisions we have ever made. Despite being proud of being a UK-based company achieving success internationally, it was becoming obvious that to take ourselves to the level we wanted to, we needed to set up a physical base in the US. We had resisted for

1 May, 2010

Growing pains

2018-09-29T12:58:20+01:00May 1st, 2010|Birth of a Startup, Ruminations|

We always knew it would happen. The day after we closed our last funding round, I sat with my team, there were 9 of us, and we said “You know things are going to change from now on?” We knew it, that hiring more people and growing quickly was going to be fabulous but also

23 Apr, 2010

How to ask for advice from busy CEOs

2018-10-03T19:14:54+01:00April 23rd, 2010|Birth of a Startup, Ruminations|

I’m at a fascinating point in my startup journey. I am still growing my company, I don’t think of myself as a success yet. Not until I’m wildly profitable or I’ve been acquired for a suitable amount will I think of myself as ’successful’. So far, I’m doing alright, and am on a good path,

23 Apr, 2010

Kicking things off again

2019-02-11T13:50:18+00:00April 23rd, 2010|Birth of a Startup, Ruminations|

Its been a very very long time since I have written in this blog. The last post was such a fitting place to stop, that it felt almost criminal to sully such a poetic ending with a banal next post. However, much has happened in the last 14 months. My company has gone from a